If you really want to hear...

Carry on Tuesday #59 ~ This week our prompt is from the first line of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 1951:
If you really want to hear about it...
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Opening thoughts...
(From my response to Carry on Tuesday #19 when I poetically reviewed The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - A book that carries on the spirit of Holden Caulfield, narrator of Catcher in the Rye...Notably, Chbosky's storyline refers to Catcher by name!)

There are those who dwell on
The fringes of life
Wide-eyed
Gently rocking
The sexual and mental cradle of identity ~
Painting the usual questions
(And answers) in
Luminous watercolours

The birth of fringe dwellers
Teenage flotsam and jetsam
Blessed with filmy second sight
No one understands
(Least of all themselves)

Quizzical
Free ignorance
Views
Classical
Boxed
Urban know-how

Their rite of passage is
Their right of passage

They explore their inner worlds
Catching their curious perks in
A sieve of understanding
Filtering select connections with the world
Partially adapting to civilised recipes
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There are those who dwell on
The fringes of life
~
If you really want to hear
About
It
(About
Them)
Look inside
And learn
About
YOU!
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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D.Salinger (1951) = 16 year old narrator
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (1999) = a series of letters by a 15 year old narrator to an unknown recipient
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (2003) = narration by an autistic 15 year old seeking sense of the world


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Holiday Reading ~ "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

Carry on Tuesday #19 ~ Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus
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There are those who dwell on
The fringes of life
Wide-eyed
Gently rocking
The sexual and mental cradle of identity ~
Painting the usual questions
(And answers) in
Luminous watercolours
Until
Addition
(Aside) Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Subtraction
(Aside) Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Multiplication and
Division
Sport
No
Absolute
Boundaries
~
(Aside) Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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For one year
Letters to some dear friend
(From teenage Charlie)
Spill into
An emotional
Void
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I keep quiet most of the time, and only one kid named Sean really seemed to notice me.
(page 7)
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Imagine the impulse of
Stars on
A pane of sky
Imagine the impulse is like
An orb of echidna quills
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I will call people by different names or generic names because I don't want you to find me.
(page 2)
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Small
Emotional
A reader
e. e. cummings
Catcher in the Rye
Walden
To Kill a Mockingbird
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And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didnt snow.
(page 92)
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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And somewhere in the melting pot
(Maybe the equation) is
A psychiatrist
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Epilogue
As we went into the tunnel, I didn't hold up my arms like I was flying. I just let the wind rush over my face. And I started smiling and crying at the same time...And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.
(page 213)
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